I look at old pictures of my city sometimes and I wish I could've lived here during those times instead. The people were respectable, respectful, had values and morals, cared about their appearance, and were cultured. Now it's like a zoo. Google some pictures of Main Street, Flushing. You'll wish you hadn't.

One of America's most prolific photographers, even though she was known for her documentary work, Austen never married, instead spending 50 years with partner Gertrude Tate.

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"They put the Jewish interest above America's interest and it's about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he's an American first and a Jew second."

Richard Milhous Nixon

"And if after having elected their man or group, obedience is not rendered to the Jewish control, then you speedily hear of "scandals" and "investigations" and "impeachments" for the removal of the disobedient."

I look at old pictures of my city sometimes and I wish I could've lived here during those times instead. The people were respectable, respectful, had values and morals, cared about their appearance, and were cultured. Now it's like a zoo. Google some pictures of Main Street, Flushing. You'll wish you hadn't.

Yes, but horse manure and urine covered the streets, and outside the more prosperous areas there was no plumbing. People stank because bathing was uncommon. Women would wear diaperlike cloths attached to heavy belts when having their periods. Workmen's clothing was dirty because washing was infrequent, and they had to scrub them with a washboard and caustic cleaners when they did.

I'd go back fifty or sixty years in a New York minute, no pun intended, but to before about 1920, no way.

You should read the Non-fiction book: The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury (1927). It disappoints me that whites had gangs that were much more corrupt and violent than any black gangs. Read the book and you will see these gangs such as the Pug Uglies, Bowery boys, and Dead Rabbits back in mid 1800's New York were way worse than any black or Hispanic gang we have now. And these guys were mostly all Irish.